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How to setup vim for Drupal

Posted June 14th, 2014 by admin

Who needs a slow and expensive IDE when you can have a high performance text editor that does nearly the same job for free? I was always frustrated using heavy java-based editors like Eclipse and NetBeans. They were slow and bulky and always seemed to get in the way of my productivity. Since I started working as a Drupal developer a few years ago, I've always wanted a fast editor that just worked and didn't get in my way. I also wanted to use it on any system or operating system including servers. Enter vim. In this article, I will show you how I set up vim to be optimized for Drupal development. The place to go to get started is here. I did a few things differently than their recommended installation. I wanted a way to keep it under version control in case some of the projects were updated. See below: